Vastness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D C A E F G F A H B G B I J K L K I M N O N I G P Q P I R S M S I B T U V V I W R W V V X I X I Y Z A2 Z I B2 C2 D2 E2 I F2 G2 H2 R I Y I2 J2 I2 I R K2 R K2 I I L2 M2 L2 I C2 N2 I N2 I O2 I I I| I | A |
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| Many a hearth upon our dark globe sighs | B |
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| after many a vanish'd face | C |
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| Many a planet by many a sun may roll | D |
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| with the dust of a vanish'd race | C |
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| II | A |
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| Raving politics never at rest as this poor | E |
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| earth's pale history runs | F |
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| What is it all but a trouble of ants in the | G |
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| gleam of a million million of suns | F |
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| III | A |
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| Lies upon this side lies upon that side | H |
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| truthless violence mourn'd by the Wise | B |
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| Thousands of voices drowning his own in a | G |
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| popular torrent of lies upon lies | B |
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| IV | I |
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| Stately purposes valour in battle glorious | J |
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| annals of army and fleet | K |
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| Death for the right cause death for the wrong cause | L |
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| trumpets of victory groans of defeat | K |
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| V | I |
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| Innocence seethed in her mother's milk | M |
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| and Charity setting the martyr aflame | N |
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| Thraldom who walks with the banner of Freedom | O |
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| and recks not to ruin a realm in her name | N |
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| VI | I |
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| Faith at her zenith or all but lost in the | G |
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| gloom of doubts that darken the schools | P |
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| Craft with a bunch of all heal in her hand | Q |
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| follow'd up by her vassal legion of fools | P |
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| VII | I |
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| Trade flying over a thousand seas with her | R |
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| spice and her vintage her silk and her corn | S |
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| Desolate offing sailorless harbours famishing | M |
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| populace wharves forlorn | S |
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| VIII | I |
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| Star of the morning Hope in the sunrise | B |
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| gloom of the evening Life at a close | T |
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| Pleasure who flaunts on her wide downway | U |
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| with her flying robe and her poison'd rose | V |
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| IX | V |
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| Pain that has crawl'd from the corpse of | I |
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| Pleasure a worm which writhes all day and at night | W |
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| Stirs up again in the heart of the sleeper | R |
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| and stings him back to the curse of the light | W |
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| X | V |
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| Wealth with his wines and his wedded harlots | V |
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| honest Poverty bare to the bone | X |
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| Opulent Avarice lean as Poverty Flattery | I |
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| gilding the rift in a throne | X |
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| XI | I |
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| Fame blowing out from her golden trumpet | Y |
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| a jubilant challenge to Time and to Fate | Z |
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| Slander her shadow sowing the nettle on | A2 |
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| all the laurel'd graves of the Great | Z |
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| XII | I |
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| Love for the maiden crown'd with marriage | B2 |
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| no regrets for aught that has been | C2 |
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| Household happiness gracious children | D2 |
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| debtless competence golden mean | E2 |
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| XIII | I |
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| National hatreds of whole generations and | F2 |
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| pigmy spites of the village spire | G2 |
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| Vows that will last to the last death ruckle | H2 |
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| and vows that are snapt in a moment of fire | R |
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| XIV | I |
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| He that has lived for the lust of the minute | Y |
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| and died in the doing it flesh without mind | I2 |
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| He that has nail'd all flesh to the Cross till | J2 |
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| Self died out in the love of his kind | I2 |
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| XV | I |
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| Spring and Summer and Autumn and Winter | R |
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| and all these old revolutions of earth | K2 |
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| All new old revolutions of Empire | R |
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| change of the tide what is all of it worth | K2 |
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| XVI | I |
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| What the philosophies all the sciences | I |
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| poesy varying voices of prayer | L2 |
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| All that is noblest all that is basest all | M2 |
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| that is filthy with all that is fair | L2 |
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| XVII | I |
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| What is it all if we all of us end but in | C2 |
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| being our own corpse coffins at last | N2 |
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| Swallow'd in Vastness lost in Silence | I |
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| drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Past | N2 |
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| XVIII | I |
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| What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom | O2 |
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| or a moment's anger of bees in their hive | I |
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| Peace let it be for I loved him and love | I |
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| him for ever the dead are not dead but alive | I |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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